Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

Carrie Fisher

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• Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.

  

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• In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

  

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• Men become old, but they never become good.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

  

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• Life is available to anyone no matter what age. All you have to do is grab it.

  

  Art Carney
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• In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.

  

  Fabio Capello
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• In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Night
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• First Sergeant P. Andrew McKenna served our nation with distinction. All Rhode Islanders are grateful for his service, and our prayers are with his family and loved ones, we havelost a patriot and ahero.

  

  Gina Raimondo
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• Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.

  

  M. John Harrison
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• I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine. You get to a point where you say, 'I will not take it anymore! I'm gonna do something drastic if I stay this depressed. I've got to break out of there!'

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Night
  • Sometimes
  • Sunshine

• I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Issues
  • Accepting
  • Settled

• I used to hold back because people would get offended, but now I'm like, 'You're going to hear me, regardless. Whether you accept what I have to say or not is on you.'

  

  Trick Daddy
  • People
  • Accepting
  • Offended

• I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

  

  Ransom Riggs
  • Happens
  • Accepting
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• Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Fashion
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• Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Accepting
  • Bipolar